Polish PM criticises presidential candidate for readiness to drop support for Ukraine's NATO accession

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that Karol Nawrocki, an opposition-backed Polish presidential candidate, has effectively endorsed Kremlin demands by stating that he is ready to withdraw his support for Ukraine’s accession to NATO.

Source: Tusk on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda 

Details: Tusk reiterated that keeping Ukraine out of NATO has been and remains the key demand made by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.

Quote: "Putin’s first and most important demand for Ukraine and the West is to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. Nawrocki has just willingly subscribed to this demand. The next one will be the capitulation and partition of Ukraine. He will subscribe to that too. This is deadly dangerous for Poland."

Background:

• Following the first round of the presidential election held on 18 May, Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski from the ruling party advanced to the second round with 31.36% of the vote, along with Karol Nawrocki, Head of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, backed by the opposition party Law and Justice (PiS), who received 29.54%.
• Nawrocki appears to be willing to make anti-Ukrainian pledges demanded by the third-place candidate in the first round, Sławomir Mentzen, in exchange for his support before the runoff.
• Among the points in the document that Mentzen proposes the candidates commit to are: a refusal to send Polish troops to Ukraine and a pledge not to sign any future law ratifying Ukraine’s accession to NATO.
• Ruling party candidate Rafał Trzaskowski expressed support for Ukraine’s NATO and EU membership several months ago, but recently stated that Ukraine should be a "buffer zone".

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